# Ὄλυμπος
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* Οὔλυμπος (Oúlumpos)

### Etymology

Probably cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀄𐀬𐀠𐀊𐀍 (u-ru-pi-ja-jo, description of men, possibly ethnical), which may indicate original /u/ in the anlaut.
According to Beekes, Pre-Greek. Suspecting originally an appellative word for “mountain” ολύ- (olú-), he tentatively identified the suffix *-ump-, and the proto-form *Ulump-.
According to Janda, a compound of the PIE roots *wel- (“to turn, wind; to enclose, wrap, encase”) and *pah₂- (“to protect, herd”), more precisely from the heteroclitic *wéluṛ ~ *welun- (“wrapping”), which directly gave Ancient Greek εἶλαρ (eîlar, “covering, shelter, defence, bulwark”), ὄλυνος (ólunos, “the rubbed off and discarded in the course of cleaning”), ὄλυνθος (ólunthos, “unripe fig”) and ὄλυρα (ólura, “amelcorn”). Further cognates include ἔλυμος (élumos, “millet; sheath, case, etui”), ἔλυτρον (élutron, “cover, case, sheath”), Albanian valle (“a kind of circular dance”), Russian вал (val, “billow, roller; rampart”), Proto-Germanic *waluz (“staff, stick”), Sanskrit वरुण (varuṇa, “ocean, sun, the gods”) and ऊर्मि (ūrmi, “wave, billow”), Latin vallus (“stake, pale; palisade”) and volvo (“to roll”). For more see εἰλύω (eilúō, “to wrap, enfold”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ó.lym.pos/ → /ˈo.lym.pos/ → /ˈo.lim.bos/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /ó.lym.pos/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈo.lym.pos/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈo.lym.pos/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈo.lym.pos/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈo.lim.bos/

### Proper noun

Ὄλῠμπος • (Ólŭmpos) m (genitive Ὀλῠ́μπου); second declension
* Olympus (a mountain in Greece)
* A mountain in Mysia, now called Uludağ

#### Derived terms

* Ὀλυμπία (Olumpía)
* Ὀλύμπια (Olúmpia)
* Ὀλυμπίαζε (Olumpíaze)
* Ὀλυμπιακός (Olumpiakós)
* Ὀλυμπιάς (Olumpiás)
* Ὀλυμπίασι (Olumpíasi)
* Ὀλυμπιεῖον (Olumpieîon)
* Ὀλυμπικός (Olumpikós)
* Ὀλυμπιόδωρος (Olumpiódōros)
* Ὀλυμπιονίκης (Olumpioníkēs)
* Ὀλύμπιος (Olúmpios)

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: Olymp
* → Basque: Olinpo
* → Breton: Olympos
* → Bulgarian: Олимп (Olimp)
* → Czech: Olymp
* → Danish: Olympen
* → Estonian: Olümpos
* → Finnish: Olympos
* → Georgian: ოლიმპო (olimṗo), ულუმბო (ulumbo)
* Greek: Όλυμπος (Ólympos)
* → Hebrew: אולימפוס (Olimpos)
* → Hungarian: Olümposz
* → Japanese: オリンポス (Orinposu)
* → Korean: 올림포스 (Ollimposeu)
* → Latin: Olympus
** Asturian: Olimpu
** Catalan: Olimp
** → Dutch: Olympus
** → English: Olympus
** French: Olympe
** → German: Olymp
** Italian: Olimpo
** Portuguese: Olimpo
** Romanian: Olimp
** Spanish: Olimpo
* → Lithuanian: Olimpas
* → Luxembourgish: Olymp
* → Norwegian: Olympos
* → Ottoman Turkish: اولیمپوس (Olimpos)
** → Turkish: Olimpos
* → Polish: Olimp
* → Russian: Олимп (Olimp)
* → Serbo-Croatian: Олимп, Olimp
* → Sicilian: Olimpu
* → Slovak: Olymp
* → Slovene: Olimp
* → Swedish: Olympen
* → Ukrainian: Олімп (Olimp)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “Ὄλυμπος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1073-4
* ↑ Janda, Michael (2005) Elysion. Entstehung und Entwicklung der griechischen Religion (in German), Innsbruck, pages 318–321

### Further reading

* “Ὄλυμπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “Ὄλυμπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “Ὄλυμπος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* “Ὄλυμπος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019